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No. 635,832. Patented Oct. 3 I, |899.

J. WOLF.

TRUNK.

(Application filed July 20, 1899.) (Norlodel.) 2 Sheets-Sheet l.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN VOLF, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

TRUNK.'

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No; 635,832, dated October 31, 1899.

Application filed .Tuly 20,1899. Serial No. 724,534. (No model.)

To cr?, whom t may concern:

Be it known that I,,JOHN WOLF, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Trunks, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

My invention has relation to improvements in trunks; and it consists in the novel arrangement and combination of parts more fully set forth in the specification and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure l is a vertical 1ongitudinal section of the trunk closed, the line of section passing through the hinges of the upper tills. Fig. 2 isa side elevation, one lid of the section being open. Fig. 3 is an end elevation. Fig. 4isa sectional detail on line 4 4 of Figs. 2 and 3, showing the construction of the'lip at the base of the hinge-leaf secured to the body of the truuk and the metallic corner-piece carried by the lid and coperatin g with it. Fig. 5 is a section similar to Fig. l, showing the preferred construction of lids and tills; and Fig. 6 isa side elevation of such preferred form, the trunk being open on one side.

The present invention is an improvement on the wall-trunk described in United States Letters Patent granted to me under date 0f .lune 13, 1899, numbered 626,953, the object of the present device being to hinge the outer lids or covers in such a way that they may open out Within the compass of the planes of the end walls of the body of the trunk, thereby rendering the structure more compact.

In detail the invention may be described as follows:

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents the body portion of the trunk, along the upper edges of the end walls of which are pivoted the lids 2 2, swinging in a plane parallel to the length of the trunk. In the present construction the end walls of the body portion are extended upward to a height corresponding to the plane of the upper surfaces of the lids when the latter are closed, the lids being hinged along the upper edges of said end walls, and when opened to a vertical position the top of the'lid is continuous or in the same plane with the end wall to which it is l secured. 'Each lid comprises a top wall, two

longitudinal side walls, and an outer end terminal wall. The side walls close over the sides or faces of the trunk, and the end walls close over the adjacent end walls of the tills 3 3, as seen in Figs. 1 and 2. In the present construction of the lid there is no end wall adjacent to the hinge-line, as is the case with the old forms of trunks, where the hinges are located along the lower edge of such wall. Each lid is secured to the end wall by the outer hinges 4 4 and intermediate hinges 5 5, the vertical leaves of the latter being' extended downward along the end wall of the body of the trunk, the extensions embracing and securely holding between them the handstraps 6, by which the trunk may be carried.- The vertical leaf of each of the outer hinges 4 is provided with a lip 7, secured to or forming part of the leaf and extended around the side Wall of the trunk, the space between the lip and trunk-body receiving the corner-piece 8, carried at the inner lower corner of the side wall of the lid, the said corner-piece being provided with an enlargement or swell 8', which when the lid is closed comes substantially ilush with the outer surface of the lip 7 thereby stiffening the parts when the lids are closed. The lower or vertical leaf of the hinge 4 is secured both to the end wall of the trunk and is further provided with a lateral extension 4', secured to the side wall thereof.

While the present device possesses all the advantages of the patented construction above referred to, it possesses the additional advantages of compactness, stiffness, and other conveniences incident to the mod'ied construction herein shown and described.

It is apparent, of course, that the device is susceptible of minor changes without departing from the spirit of my invention.

In the modifications shown in Figs. and 6 one of the tills 3', as well as the lid 2', closing over the same, is made shorter than the till and lid on the opposite side, the short till being devoid of a depending wall at its free or swinging end, the space between the adjacent ends of the tills receiving the depending end wall of the larger lid when'closed. In the modification referred to the lower tray 10 rests on strips 11, which do not run the full length of the trunk, but terminate at a point IOO to conveniently permit the tilting and re`- moval of such tray 10-Without the necessity of opening the short till 3', as seen in dotted lines in Fig. 6.

Having described my invention, what I claim is* l. In a trunk, a body portion, a lid having a top, two side walls, and one end .wall, hinged to the upper edge of the end wall of the trunk along a line opposite the end wall of the lid, the side Walls of the lid being adapted to close over the side walls of the trunk, a lip carried by or formed on the lower vertical leaf of the hinge and direct-ed parallel to the side or face of the trunk, a corner-piece carried by the lower inner corner of the side wall of the lid and adapted to be received by the space between Ithe lip and trunk-body, thereby locking the parts when the lids are closed, and an enlargement or "swell formed on the corner-piece and adapted lid and short lid hinged along the upper edges of the end Walls thereof, and opening outwardly in planes forming contin nations of the outer surfaces of such end walls, tills of corresponding length located below the lids, a

'lower tray and supporting-strips for such lower tray, said strips extending only partially the length of the trunk to permit the tilting and withdrawal of the lower tray upon opening of the longer lid and till immediately adjacent thereto, substantially as set forth.

3. A trunk having a body portion, a long lid and a short lid hinged along the upper edges of the end Walls thereof, tills of corresponding length located below the lids, a lower tray and supporting strips for such lower tray, said strips extending only partally the length of the trunk to permit the tilting and withdrawal of the lower tray upon opening of the longer lid and till immediately adjacent thereto, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of twowitnesses. Y

JOHN XVOLF. Vitnesses:

EMIL STAREK, MORRIS G. LEVINsoN. 

